Diamond spins a four-hitter

Wednesday

Apr 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM

SWANSEA — Last Thursday afternoon, Case High School baseball team junior Mitch Diamond pitched a gem of a game as he threw a four hit complete game to defeat the visiting ORR Bulldogs by the score of 4-1.

BOB MITCHELL

SWANSEA — Last Thursday afternoon, Case High School baseball team junior Mitch Diamond pitched a gem of a game as he threw a four hit complete game to defeat the visiting ORR Bulldogs by the score of 4-1.

After limiting a potent lineup to just one unearned run, Diamond also helped himself at the plate. He drew a leadoff walk in the bottom of the third with the score still deadlocked at 0-0. He advanced on a single by his catcher, Mike Lafleur. Diamond then came around to score on a John Elderkin sacrifice fly. The Cardinals built on this lead in the very next inning as Cotey Monte also led off with a walk. Korey Maynard sparked the offense by keeping the inning alive with a two out single, Diamond followed this up with a single and then Lafleur drove Monte in.

The visiting Bulldogs scored their lone run in the fourth inning, taking advantage of two errors by Case. But that would be all the offense they could muster as Diamond just continued to throw strikes and work his way through the Bulldog lineup. Case Coach Joel Brown said, "He was fantastic today, he was very confident. He got in a groove and mixed up his pitches."

The Cardinals added an insurance run in the fifth inning as Elderkin hit a double and scored when Monte ripped an RBI triple down the line. Diamond pitched a scoreless seventh to clinch the victory and notch his first win of the young season.

Besides the dominant pitching performance, Brown also received valuable production from the sixth to eighth spots in the batting order, as Maynard, Diamond, and Lafleur combined to go five for eight.

Case moved to 3-0 (2-0 in the South Coast Conference) on Monday as Brown returned to Dighton-Rehoboth, the school and field where he played his high school ball, and came out with a big 9-1 win. Correll, the ace of the staff, pitched 5 2/3 innings and struck out 10 while only allowing a couple of hits. To add to this already impressive performance, he hit a tape measure home run. Cam Levesque delivered a big double earlier in the game and Trevor Griffin had two hits and drove in two runs.

Case plays today at home versus Seekonk with the game beginning at 3:30 p.m.

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